🚚 From Cold Emails to Trucking AI Pipelines

Hey automation fam,

Four months ago, I was living in Chrome with 17 tabs open, cold emailing dental clinics with pitches meant for fintech founders. Half my time was explaining what “agents” meant to people who’d never heard of vector databases. The other half was hoping they wouldn’t ghost me after saying “looks interesting…"

Fast forward to last week:

“Hey, I saw your n8n RAG template — could it handle 23,000 rows in Excel?”

That was the first line from Jose, a logistics lead in Chile managing over 400 vehicles. His spreadsheet was the kind that freezes your browser and makes you question your life choices. We’d never spoken before. I had no ads running. He just found it through a template I almost didn’t publish.

The template wasn’t polished. No marketing copy. No fancy landing page. Just raw documentation for a RAG setup I built and shared because it felt useful. I figured maybe three people would download it.

But Jose’s use case is exactly what I built it for: technical, high-stakes, documentation-heavy chaos. A 400-vehicle operation generates massive structured data that traditional tools choke on — route optimization, maintenance records, scheduling conflicts. The kind of interconnected information that needs intelligent retrieval, not just search.

His spreadsheet uses conditional formatting that’s already broken two parsers. The escalation logic alone is giving me nightmares. It’s genuinely annoying.

But it’s also exactly the kind of problem that makes this work worth doing.

The shift wasn’t better cold emails or smarter outreach sequences. It was the quiet asset I almost kept to myself. The thing I shared without expecting anything back.

Jose didn’t need to be convinced RAG was useful. He was already looking for it. When someone finds your work through their own problem-solving journey, they’re not a prospect — they’re already bought in.

Lesson:

Ship the thing you almost didn’t. You never know who’s watching.

👉 Question for you all:

What’s one “unpolished” asset sitting in your drafts right now that could help someone today if you just shared it?

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